BULLETIN - Report: Icahn mulling Yahoo proxy fight
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is mulling a proxy fight against Yahoo's current board members in order to pressure the company to reestablish merger negotiations with Microsoft, The Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition Tuesday afternoon. |
HP buys EDS for $13.9 billion
HP said Tuesday morning that it has signed a deal to acquire IT outsourcer EDS for $13.9 billion, or $25.00 per share. |
FAQ: What does the HP-EDS deal really mean?
HP buying EDS could double its services business to nearly $40 billion in revenue, helping the vendor inch closer to its rival IBM, which brings in closer to $54 billion in revenue for services annually. |
Which IT security skills are most important?
I often hear from IT executives that it is hard to recruit and retain “good security people.” Many lament the shortage of skills in this area and cannot reconcile the skills offered with the positions that need to be filled. Is there really a shortage of good security people? Or just a mismatch in the skills and the jobs? |
Microsoft's Raikes to head Gates Foundation
Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft's business division, will take over as CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation when he leaves the software giant in September. |
Philly's Wi-Fi net to be shut down
Philadelphia's pioneering citywide Wi-Fi network is shutting down. |
A surfeit of network neutrality legislation
Two proposed network neutrality bills are wending their way through Congress. They’re not bad but not perfect either, says columnist Scott Bradner. |
Clock is ticking on .me domain names
Trademark-holders have until May 20 to register their company and product names under the new .me domain, which is being marketed as a generic top-level domain by the country of Montenegro. |
Microsoft Patch Tuesday: Four patches fix mostly Office vulnerabilities
Microsoft Tuesday released four patches to fix six vulnerabilities, three of which were rated critical for Microsoft Word, Publisher and the Jet Database Engine 4.0. Experts say the fourth patch, rated important, could also be viewed as critical because it affects security software that could be shut down in an attack. |
Icy encryption tool protects laptops from "cold boot" attack, vendor says
The vendor HyBlue says it can prevent the "cold boot" encryption hack discovered by Princeton researchers. |
20% have never sent an e-mail
Roughly one-fifth of all U.S. households are disconnected from the Internet and have never used e-mail, according to research firm Parks Associates. |
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Roughly one-fifth of all U.S. households are disconnected from the Internet and have never used e-mail, according to research firm Parks Associates. |
